QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.
Chinese Proverb

There are four chief obstacles to grasping truth,
which hinder every man, however learned,
and scarcely allow any one to win a clear title to learning,
namely,
submission to faulty and unworthy authority,
influence of custom,
popular prejudice,
and concealment of our own ignorance
accompanied by ostentatious display of our knowledge.
Roger Bacon (Franciscan Theologian)

A lot of questions are presented by people who like to
be annoying. There is no point in answering most of them.
However, there are legitimate questions that are posed
and even some that should be answered from those who
have ulterior motives.

This section has been added to show a few of the
deliberately annoying questions or accusations, and all of
the legitimate questions when they occur.

Question (actually a public accusation):

"You say that
time is measured
with motion. This is a misunderstanding of the second law of
thermodynamics."

Answer:

The reader has only to go to the section of this site
regarding time and read it to see that time is measured by motion. The
revolution of the earth about the sun is our measure of the year,
the rotation of the earth relative to the sun is our measure of a
day, the movement of the second hand on our clock is the measure of
seconds and minutes, etc.

The second law of thermodynamics states, essentially: "The entropy
of the universe tends to increase (energy becomes less available).

What has the second law of thermodynamics to do with time being
measured by motion? Someone said that there are no silly questions,
but whoever said this did not know about individuals who are only
remnants of their former selves. Perhaps we should feel sorry for
people whose only recourse to fame is to use buzz words to influence
the opinions of others. However, those who took too much dope,
alcohol, or are still taking too much of either probably deserve
what they get. They should not be bothering the rest of us with their
symptoms.

Question:

"You say that matter is proportional to weight. This is a
confusion of mass and weight. Go back to school."

Answer:

Yes, mass is proportional to weight. This does not
mean that it is equal to weight. In English measure (but not in
the metric system) this can be seen easily because the English used
a different term for mass than they did for weight. In English measure,
mass is given in "slugs" and weight is given in "pounds". The equation
is mass times gravity equals weight. Or the product of slugs and gravity
(acceleration of about 32.2 feet per second per second) equals pounds.
If the mass is tripled, the weight is also tripled. If the mass is
quadrupled, the weight is also quadrupled. This is why mass is
proportional to weight.

In the metric system, the word for both mass and weight is
either subdivisions of, multiples of, or straight "grams", which
tends to create confusion.

The same individual made the above accusation and the one before it.
My comments about him apply here as well. However, he did provide a
service in that other people may not have realized that mass is
measured in slugs.

Question:

"You say that Newton said `The quantity of motion arises
from velocity and the quantity of matter with that velocity'. This
is a gross misunderstanding of Newton. Go back to high school".

Answer:

This is an exact quote from Newton's
original "definitions". The rest of the quote has to do with momentum
which is the product of mass and velocity.

It appears to me the the person making the accusation has real
problems with reading and with understanding.

Question:

"You say that Newton said `The absolute quantity of a
centripetal force is the measure of the centrifugal force which it
opposes. For centripetal force is equal to centrifugal force for
the body in question'. No such thing as centrifugal force. Go back
to college".

Answer:

This is a paraphrasing from Newton's definitions.
What Newton stated is "The absolute quantity of centripetal force
is the measure of the same, proportional to the efficacy of the
cause which propagates from the center". He went on to say, as
paraphrased in modern language, "centrifugal force and centripetal
force oppose one another and are equal when relating to the same
body or bodies".

Centrifugal force is a name given to what happens when an object is
constantly pulled toward a center such as is a stone in a sling or
the earth about the sun. It is a "force" caused by inertia to oppose
an acceleration toward a point.
If it did not exist, the earth would fall toward the sun and the
poor soul that accused me of a mistatement would not be around to do so.
It can be argued that its name is wrong, but check the dictionary and
see if it does not exist, regardless of what it is named.

Question (accusation):

"You stated: `The laws of physics are the same
everywhere in the universe, and at every time that the universe has
existed'. Misunderstanding of relativity. Go back to college".

Answer:

First of all this quote was taken out of context from under
the heading showing that it was from late 19th century physics.
Second, it is special relativity to which that the person is referring -
not simply "relativity". And third, neither special nor general
relativity says anything about one part of the universe having laws
that are any different to those in this part of the universe.

Question (accusation):

You have no empirical evidence.

Answer:

On the contrary, there is universe full of empirical evidence
when one bothers to see it. Much of it is on this website.
See the part of the site called "Empirical Evidence" for more
details.

This accusation was probably not a malicious one, but the accuser
probably had no idea of the definition of empirical evidence, is
unable to see it when it is presented, or cannot understand the
math that shows that it applies here. This is not too bad from
this individual, but there are many editors and so-called scientists
who use this accusation to deliberately block scientific progress.

Question (accusation):

Calculus was not used, so the theory is not valid. Probably the
website author does not know calculus.

Answer:

This is what I call a stupid accusation, indicating very little
knowledge of math. If this person understood the math on this
site, he would not have made such a silly statement. The second
part of his accusation is one that indicates he has no knowledge
of real engineering (as opposed to "title" engineering - remember
that today a "sanitary engineer" is the title that was given to
a garbage collector). Furthermore, it is easy to verify what
real engineers must know - and any moron who examines the website
can verify where I went to school. I classify this as a malicious
accusation. Click on "Using the Right Tools" on the home page
for further information.

Question:

"What is meant by "instantaneous velocity" as regards nether inflow?"
After this was explained, "Couldn't this be explained with calculus?"

Answer:

This term was coined to make it clear that the nether in a gravity
funnel is always accelerating. Yes, it could be explained using the
terms of calculus. I did not do so because many people have not
studied calculus.

For those who have studied calculus, "instantaneous velocity" is the
same as ds/dt where "s" is distance and "t" is time.
This velocity is increasing so that dv/dt is there right
along with the velocity. The acceleration is constant for one level
such as earth's surface. It changes as the altitude changes according
to the inverse square law. It is the acceleration which is the acceleration
of gravity. So ds/dt is about 6.94 miles per second at the
earth's surface where dv/dt is about 32.2 feet per second.

It is the mathematical proofs which can be clicked on in the Appendix
Menu for Is There a Dynamic Ether that make the points about
nether inflow as being gravity.

In my book on gravity I explain "instantaneous velocity" more fully for
those who have not taken calculus. " Truly, the nether within the
funnel has no velocity because velocity is based upon distance over a
time. Here we have only acceleration at all points and no time allowed
for constant rate of movement. So we must use a hypothetical something
called instantaneous velocity which is the velocity we would have at a
point if the point were extended to allow a time to measure the velocity."

The last sentence in the preceding paragraph is a verbal description of
what is being done in calculus when a curved line on a graph is given a
tangent at a point (extending the point) to show the slope. This should
not confuse either the calculus student or those who have not taken
calculus.

Unfortunately, most of the people who are more interested in forcing
me to use calculus fail to look at the important things. The nether
"falling" into a mass producing gravity has an infinite series of
kinetic energy levels which cause it to create the inverse square law
for gravity. This is the most important point to be noticed. Another
point is the adherence to the Mass equivalency law.

One thing some of these questions illustrate quite well is the emotional
disturbance that this site creates within some of those who feel
threatened by anything that may upset their world view. These
questions also confirm what has been said regarding our so-called
scientists (science fiction writers) who are accepted and mean to
stay in charge at all costs. True science is not being practiced
when self-interest supercedes the desire to discover the answers.

Luther Burbank (1849-1929), the famous American horticulturist, once
said

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original
thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most
people is to think.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself,
wherever it may lead.

We must learn that any person who will not accept what he knows to be
truth, for the very love of truth alone, is very definitely undermining
his mental integrity. You have not been a close observer of such men
if you have not seen them shrivel, become commonplace, mean, without
influence, without friends and without the enthusiasm of youth and
growth, like a tree covered with fungus, the foliage diseased, the life
gone out of the heart with dry rot, and indelibly marked for destruction -
dead, but not yet handed over to the undertaker.